In the past few hundred years, everything has evolved with the exception of the classroom. Higher education is broken for the following reasons:
- Rise in tuition has increased over 200% in the past 30 years
- Higher education curriculum has not kept up with certain fast paced industries (technology, marketing, etc), thus graduates have a widening gap between skills acquired in school vs those needed on the job
- Schools of today can't prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow
There has been a response from the entrepreneurial community regarding this problem.
Introducing Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs)
A MOOC is an online class which is open to the public. Several ventures have launched in the education space such as Udacity, Coursera, and Edx.
My personal experience with MOOCs came as I enrolled in Sebastian Thrun's Artificial Intelligence & Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course @Coursera during Fall of 2012. The lectures were engaging, less than 15 minutes each. The pace of the courses was challenging yet doable.
Meetup.com: Death of the Resume
From my personal experience, meetup.com has transformed the job searching and career mentoring dramatically. You can instantly connect with local members of your community based on interest and skill. Meetups can be a great way to find out about new job and career opportunities. Besides the element of networking, meetups will often host a series of talks/workshops to advance your knowledge in a particular topic. Meetups have a good mixture of variety, depth and real people who can help you.
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